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My Favorite Albums from the 1980s
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Poll Question: Which of these is your favorite?
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    Posted: April 28 2020 at 17:38
These are 25 of my favorite albums from the 1980s--pretty much in order, top to bottom.

Choose a one or a few of the ones that you love, too. 

The 80s weren't so bad, were they?
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why is this under prog polls? 

Solaris I guess





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Ponty was 78, but I'll vote for that.
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^Yep. I was just going to point out that Cosmic Messenger was from 78. 
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I don’t know most of these (bar the Prog titles) - but - someone here likes Swing Out Sister ??
I had the hots for Corrine D in the 80’s. It’s better to travel - very good album. Communion was my fave song, though I haven’t listened to this for over 20 years.
Oh, Eskaton is my pick from those I’m familiar with.

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Based on this list, yeah they were. lol

Discipline, easy. 
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Solaris followed by King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, and The Fixx.
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I thought I would give the Fixx a shout out here with a vote. Several favorites of mine are on this list too.
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I haven't heard most from the list, so my opinion about the 80's remains not too good.

Since I ignore most of those albums I didn't vote. KC's Discipline is one of the few I know, and is not a favorite of mine from their discography.

The other one I know is Ghost in the Machine, and I love it. Fact is, my favorite Police albums are Ghost and Synchronicity.

Perhaps the 80's weren't that bad, indeed
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Ok, the 80s were not thoroughly bad. My choices: Rickie Lee Jones, U2 and Simple Minds.
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Lots of brilliant albums to chose from...and I eenie-meenie-miny-moe’d myself into picking the Tears For Fears debut. Still my fave from the band.
Could’ve gone for quite a few others though...also really dig Treasure from Cocteau Twins.
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^   Very impressive ! I only have Reggada de Blanc on vinyl, the rest on official cassette.

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The wonderful Cocteau Twins....
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Born in 1970 so a big '80s fan....yet I am very unfamiliar with most on this list so went with the Tears For Fears debut...

And actually I don't have many of what you might call "classic '80s" albums, I was into buying singles/12" singles as a youth; but would include Songs From The Big Chair by Tears For Fears as an absolute belter!

Then I got into rock/classic rock/metal; so amazing albums I bought from the '80s would include those by King's X, Metallica, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Bryan Adams, etc.  A couple of my favourite less well known recommendations would be Memory In The Making by John Kilzer, and King Swamp by King Swamp.

And, of course, many of my favourite prog albums are from the '80s: particularly by IQ and Marillion...

Never got into a lot of popular mainstream bands, like U2, Simple Minds, The Cure, Springsteen, Prince, The Police...
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Discipline, The Dreaming, and Brilliant Trees are among my top 10 of all time. And then The Cure get into my selection on a wild card. Not quite up to the other three (and not my favourite Cure album either, by some distance), but in need of some love.
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Arh nuts! I missed the part about multivoting
I have effectively remedied that with some sugar for Kate Bush, Crimson, Simple Minds, Solaris, The Police and The Cure. I love all these albums for quite different reasons.

Oh and Drew. I would have taken you for a Siouxsie fan as well with your affinity for female vocals
Hyæna and A Kiss In The Dreamhouse are two of my faves.

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There were quite many great albums in the eighties specially in the alternative/Indie (for example Sonic Youth, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, Beefheart, the Pop Group, Pere Ubu, Meat Puppets, Wipers, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Bauhaus), but there are not many of those my faves in this poll. I choose only Bush and the Cure (I would have put Seventeen Seconds, Faith or Pornography instead of Disintegration). I like quite much Japan three eighties albums, but haven´t heard any Sylvian solos. Should I?
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Solaris for me

PG would be next
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Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

  I like quite much Japan three eighties albums, but haven´t heard any Sylvian solos. Should I?

Not that I know your taste very well, but yes you should, definitely! Brilliant Trees is absolutely wonderful. Secrets of the Beehive is about as good, and the two in between are not bad either. Later he becomes very experimental and sometimes atonal and structureless. I love much of his later stuff as well (how much more do I treasure those who start in pop music and then, more mature, go into adventurous territory than those who take the other direction), although surely it isn't everyone's cup of tea. Speaking of Japan, Rain Tree Crow and Mick Karn's solo work are also not to be ignored! 


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